[dforest]

I wouldn't try. Escalation, and obviously actual involvement of NATO, is unmistakable. Immediately afterward the propagandists are sent out to brag and claim no NATO involvement.

[Starboard]

“Immediately afterward the propagandists are sent out to brag and claim no NATO involvement.”

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Yep, big time proxy war.

[Justa]

Oh, yeah, 350,000 well equipped and well trained professional soldiers against 500,000 poorly trained, poorly armed conscripts with 19th century leadership 200 KMs behind the front. That’ll be interesting.

It was already done in Operation Desert Storm.